Joshua 9:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²¹ The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the leaders said to them, Let them live [and be our slaves]. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the leaders had said of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them.

Common English Bible

²¹ The leaders went on to say to them, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water haulers for the whole community, exactly as the leaders had intended for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But though they live, let them serve the entire multitude by cutting wood and carrying water." And while they were discussing these things,

Joshua 9:21 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 46:22

The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

Deuteronomy 29:10

You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el,

Deuteronomy 29:11

your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

Joshua 10:1

Now it happened, when Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim heard how Yehoshua had taken `Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Yericho and her king, so he had done to `Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Giv`on had made shalom with Yisra'el, and were among them;

Joshua 9:15

Yehoshua made shalom with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9:20

This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Joshua 9:27

That day Yehoshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place which he should choose.